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Blue Chip's Mark Bryers arrested in A$17m fraud probe
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Blue Chip's Mark Bryers arrested in A$17m fraud probe

Former Blue Chip boss Mark Bryers - who is banned from running companies in New Zealand - has been arrested in Australia as part of a A$17 million fraud investigation.

Victoria Young 22 Jul 2020
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Watson entity claims half a billion in Cullen liquidation
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Watson entity claims half a billion in Cullen liquidation

A trust linked to Eric Watson has claimed more than half a billion dollars in the liquidation of his Cullen Group.

Victoria Young 20 Jul 2020
ON THE MONEY: Sistema, Collins, Augusta and more
Opinion

Victoria Young: ON THE MONEY: Sistema, Collins, Augusta and more

Welcome to On the Money, BusinessDesk’s weekly column on money and the people making it.It’s a digital lifeWe’ve all got used to doing much more business through digital meetings than by face-to-face, but there was a special quality to the deal struck between Auckland-based Soul...

Victoria Young 18 Jul 2020
DAVID CHAPLIN: Afterpay, the payment system that ‘isn’t’
Opinion

David Chaplin: DAVID CHAPLIN: Afterpay, the payment system that ‘isn’t’

How much for cash?In the good old days, your plumber would have an answer to that question. But the demise of physical money, a sustained regulatory crack-down on the ‘black economy’ and a surplus of anti-money laundering rules have rendered the ‘cashie’ obsolete: a piece of fina...

David Chaplin 15 Jul 2020